The scientific committee of the Institute for Political Studies is constituted by the following members:

Prof. Adriano Moreira

Prof. Ana Canhoto

Prof. André Azevedo Alves

Prof. Carlos Marques de Almeida

Prof. Lieutenant-Coronel Francisco Proença Garcia

Prof. Gonçalo Matias

Prof. Hugo Chelo

Prof. Ivone Moreira

Prof. João Carlos Espada

Prof. João César das Neves

Prof. João Confraria

Prof. João Pereira Coutinho

Prof. José Adelino Afonso

Prof. José Manuel Pereira de Almeida

Prof. José Miguel Sardica

Prof. Lívia Franco

Prof. Manuel Braga da Cruz

Prof. Mário Pinto

Prof. Miguel Morgado

Prof. Mónica Dias

Prof. Orlando Samões

Prof. Sónia Ribeiro

Prof. William Hasselberger

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"To be bred in a place of estimation; to see nothing low and sordid from one's infancy; to be taught to respect one's self; to be habituated to the censorial inspection of the public eye; (...) to have leisure to read, to reflect, to converse; (...) to be taught to despise danger in the pursuit of honour and duty; (...) to possess the virtues of diligence, order, constancy, and regularity, and to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice: these are the circumstances of men that form what I should call a natural [as opposed to feudal] aristocracy."

Edmund Burke, 1791

"It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life - these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge, they are the objects of a University."